reginald carr. do you recall telling the detective, i never really got a look at his face because he kept it pretty much hidden? i don t know if those were my exact words or not. val wachtel argued that h.g. was not credible because she had been unable to make a positive identification of reginald carr at a preliminary hearing a few months before. as you look at mr. reginald carr sitting here today, does he look to you substantially the same as he did at the preliminary hearing? he s more shaven right now. when you were asked to identify reginald carr at the preliminary hearing, were you able to see his eyes? he had on glasses. are you able to see his eyes now? you can, but glasses are there again. are his eyes substantially the same as they were at the preliminary hearing? yes.
at an apartment complex in northeast wichita. andy schreiber saw the arrest on television. i thought, oh, my god, that s the guy that kidnapped me. though the suspect gave police a phony name at first, he was later identified as reginald carr, 23, an ex-con from dodge city. within 12 hours of discovering the bodies in the soccer field, police had a second suspect in custody, 20-year-old jonathan carr, reginald s brother. he was turned in by a woman whose daughter had recently started dating him. jonathan happened to be sleeping on the woman s couch when the news of the murders broke. the suspects are two african-american men believed to be in their 20s. the carrs told police they were innocent. but while waiting for blood and hair samples to be taken, jonathan carr nervously asked detective kelly otis a telling
would be a case driven by memories, indelible images like the scene at the soccer field. the blood was against the snow and then refrozen, and it was just a bizarre, very bizarre scene. so you couldn t have prepared yourself for what you were about to see? no. we identified with a lot of these victims. they could be your children. they could be your brother, your sister. this is just so wrong. four young victims, barely clothed, shot execution-style. this didn t belong in wichita, kansas. this belonged in some war zone. when detective kelly otis arrived at the hospital trauma room, the survivor, the woman we ve called h.g., was surrounded by doctors, nurses and technicians. her head is bloody. her face is kind of away from me as i m walking up from the foot of the bed to the front to talk to her. and as i get up toward the head part of the bed, i think she heard some traffic over my police radio and her head
in front of the car. it s just amazing that someone has this kind of memory, this kind of recall that can pinpoint these guys. from the beginning, this would be a case driven by memories, indelible images like the scene at the soccer field. the blood was against the snow and then refrozen, and it was just a bizarre, very bizarre scene. so you couldn t have prepared yourself for what you were about to see? no. we identified with a lot of these victims. they could be your children. they could be your brother, your sister. this is just so wrong. four young victims, barely clothed, shot execution-style. this didn t belong in wichita, kansas. this belonged in some war zone. when detective kelly otis arrived at the hospital trauma room, the survivor, the woman we ve called h.g., was surrounded by doctors, nurses and technicians. her head is bloody. her face is kind of away from me as i m walking up from the foot of the bed to the front to talk
jonathan carr nervously asked detective kelly otis a telling question about the death penalty in kansas. he asked me, how do they do it? i told him, well, you re strapped to a table. a needle is put in your arm. you re injected with a chemical and you die. a little more pause as he thought about it. then he said, do they feel it? i said, i don t know, we ve never been able to ask anybody. he kind of bowed his head a little bit. and i thought i saw his eyes tear up, but i wasn t sure, and i really didn t care. coming up, drama in the courtroom. they were shouting, where s the safe? we told them there wasn t one. they then directed everybody to get undressed.